This course will focus on designing solutions for educational sustainability challenges in Jerusalem's education system. It is a dual-institution, multi-disciplinary, and multi-voiced course. The course will facilitate a productive encounter between the worlds of education, creativity, and action for sustainable education and climate change. Fifteen students from the Education Department and the Climate Sustainability and Society program at the Hebrew University, along with fifteen students from various departments at Bezalel, will work on designing pedagogical solutions to challenges of local cultural change in Jerusalem for a sustainable future. Throughout the course, students will learn about sustainability, pedagogical innovation, and the inherent connection between them. Simultaneously, they will meet individuals and organizations involved in education for sustainability and learn from their approaches, activities, and challenges from their perspective. These challenges will be translated into opportunities during workshops, where the students will create multi-disciplinary responses to the challenges, aligned with multi-disciplinary literature and the field. 

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The Arabic Movie: a case study. The purpose of the pro-seminar is to write a research paper in the field of cinema: choosing a topic, presenting a research question, constructing a thesis, locating sources and selecting possible methodologies. The course intends to encourage students to create through life experiences, research, intellectual depth and  the use of a theoretical "tool box", for the benefit of both their creation and  research. Based on the case of "Friday's Arabic movie", we will learn about the inter-relationship between the position of the researcher/creator and the object of research, how a creative act is also a creation of knowledge, and the importance of criticism and self-reflection. During the first semester, "The Arab Film" will serve as a case study for visual research and documentary work. During this semester, the students, in consultation with the supervisor, will have to formulate a research topic related to their field of interest and/or creation. In the second semester, the students will be asked to present their research (research question, thesis, approximate structure of the paper, research methods and sources).